Willa Was Here is the debut album of popsingerWilla Ford on Lava/Atlantic Records. The album peaked at #56 on The Billboard 200 chart, August 04, 2001. The album contained the hit single 'I Wanna Be Bad', which sold over 250,000 copies[1], and her second single 'Did Ya Understand That'. The album also contained a hyper link to the video for ‘I Wanna Be Bad’. Willa wrote nine of the eleven tracks.
Producers: Josh Schwartz, Brian Kierulf, Michael D. Goodman, Eve Nelson, Andrew Scott Marvel, Robert D. Fusari, Tim Kelly, Bob Robinson, Howie Hirsh, Robbie Nevil, Scott Ialacci, Anthony Acid
Executive producer: Willa Ford, Jason Flom, Andy Shane
Management: DAS Communications, Ltd.
Engineers: Eve Nelson, Tim Kelly, Bob Robinson, Stephen George
Assistant engineers: Benjamin Jelen
Vocal engineers: Stephen George
Mix engineers: Manny Marriquin
Mixing: Rob Chiarelli, Michael D. Goodman, Kenny Gioia, Eve Nelson, Andrew Scott Marvel, Jim "Bonzai" Caruso, Robert D. Fusari, Bill Lee
Mixing assistants: Jay Nichlas
Mastering: Tom Coyne
A&R direction: Jason Flom, Andy Shane
A&R administration: Gregg Nadel
Programming: Josh Schwartz, Brian Kierulf, Eve Nelson, Andrew Scott Marvel, Robert D. Fusari, Falonte Moore, Tim Kelly
Drum programming: Michael D. Goodman, Kenny Gioia, Eve Nelson
Keyboard Programming: Darius Rustam
Pro Tools whiz: Alan Friedman
Vocal Production Effect: Cynthia Daniels
Arrangers: Andrew Scott Marvel
Vocal arrangement: Willa Ford, Jen Carr, Sabelle Breer
String arrangements: Josh Schwartz
Charts
Year
Album
Chart
Position
2001
Willa Was Here
The Billboard 200
#56
The Billboard 200 Chart Run
Week
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Chart Position
56
76
101
101
101
101
101
105
106
109
124
130
153
168
170
185
188
189
196
193
Week
21
22
23
24
29
30
31
32
33
34
43
44
Chart Position
197
199
199
out
185
188
196
197
out
199
196
out
NOTE: The album was not on the chart for 44 consecutive weeks. It fell out of the charts twice, before eventually falling out permanantly.